Historical setting: 602 C.E. A cottage in the Vosges Our family gathers at this table; but Gabe is gone from us. Everyone is celebrating the success that his good education brought. But now, I, myself, am reconsidering this unusual requirement for literacy that Ana and I have laid onto these children. We have noContinue reading “#46.2, Weds., July 5, 2023”
Category Archives: Serial Fiction
#46.1, Tues., July 4, 2023
Historical setting: 602 C.E. Returning to the cottage in the Vosges We leave Luxeuil in the donkey cart with a Luxeuil bird in a box, so we can message Gabe and the others back there. Greg is walking a fast pace just ahead of the cart. I have this letter with me to carryContinue reading “#46.1, Tues., July 4, 2023”
#45.13, Thurs., June 29, 2023
Historical setting: 602 C.E. Luxeuil I’m telling the Father of the brutality in Châlons and my rescue by Gabe and Greg. Ana is well-known for her gift of healing so they shouldn’t be surprised that I’m not dead, but healing. Brother Servant brings me a chair. The Father apologizes for sending us onContinue reading “#45.13, Thurs., June 29, 2023”
#45.12, Weds., June 28, 2023
Historical setting: 602 C.E. Luxeuil Brother Servant calls me from something of an embarrassing conversation with the overseer of gifts while I was negotiating a place for Gabe at this monastery. I find that those monks who knew me from my association with Annegray had been grieving my death. Now they assume they’d receivedContinue reading “#45.12, Weds., June 28, 2023”
#45.11, Tues., June 27, 2023
Historical setting: 602 C.E. Luxeuil Luxeuil is different from the small cloister of monks that peopled Annegray. Now it has overseers for things like gifts from nobility. Father Columbanus is so well-known far and wide that bishops must gather in councils to request his attendance, even when they mean to accuse him of ignoringContinue reading “#45.11, Tues., June 27, 2023”
#45.10, Thurs., June 22, 2023
Historical setting: 602 C.E. A cottage in the Vosges Greg and Gabe have only been back from Metz for a day when they are ready to go off again, this time to find the places where noble families plot their children’s successes. We aren’t of the aristocracy, but Greg would like to be trainedContinue reading “#45.10, Thurs., June 22, 2023”
#45.9, Weds., June 21, 2023
Historical setting: 602 C.E. A cottage in the Vosges Greg argues against my hard rule for pacifism. He says, “When plotting bishops order their guards to murder an innocent man just because he brings them a message — then they are evil.” “’When’ you say? So evil is not a person but theContinue reading “#45.9, Weds., June 21, 2023”
#45.8, Tues., June 20, 2023
Historical setting: 602 C.E. A cottage in the Vosges Greg and Gabe returned from Metz more excited than ever about the possibilities of taking their accomplishments and making themselves into some twist of aristocracy. They’ve decided riding horses is more to their liking than managing the farm mule, and a polished sword dangles fromContinue reading “#45.8, Tues., June 20, 2023”
#45.7, Thurs., June 15, 2023
Historical setting: 602 C.E. A cottage in the Vosges I’m tempted to lecture little Simon on the assurance that God is with him even though silent. I would tell him that, but he isn’t asking me to send him God. And really, for any of us, it is only God who can answer theContinue reading “#45.7, Thurs., June 15, 2023”
#45.6, Weds., June 14, 2023
Historical setting: 602 C.E. A cottage in the Vosges So today Simon and I are sorting through his collection of strangely shaped tree roots, aged and washed in the creek. Which of these elbows of old root is a harp? Some are too fragile, some have too many parts, and some have no placeContinue reading “#45.6, Weds., June 14, 2023”
Lazarus Ink 